% Total Population that is Urban (2001, UN World Urbanization Prospects)

30%

Urban Areal Extents, by Source

Nighttime Lights Data

16

Regression-estimated Extents

78

Digital Chart of the World

5

Other

0

Notes

Administrative Population Source Data:

RGPH (Recensement General de la Population et de l''Habitat) 1993, Institut National de la Statistique, Madagascar; 2001 level 2 population estimates were from Institut National de la Statistique at: http://www.cite.mg/instat/pdf in the file estim-pop.pdf.

Administrative Boundary Source Data:

Level 3 administrative boundaries were obtained via a database produced by the National Statistical Office and the Institut National de la Statistique et de la Recherche Economique, Tananarive, in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division''s Software Development Project: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/softproj/index.htm.

Settlement Point Population Source Data:

1993 Recensement General de la Population et de L''Habit Tome VII, Census Bureau; AFCities, Data provided by Uwe Deichman at the World Bank; City Population, http://www.citypopulation.de; World Gazetteer, www.gazetteer.de

Settlement Point Coordinate Source Data:

AFCities, NIMA, Times Atlas of the World, 1, UNSD, World Gazetteer

Urban Criteria for Settlements (UN):

Centres with more than 5,000 in-habitants.

Administrative Population Edits and Notes:

Prefecture-level growth rates from 1993-2001 were used to project population to the target years.